Gentoo alert 200306-14 (tcptraceroute)

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Daniel Ahlberg <aliz@gentoo.org>
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gentoo-announce@gentoo.org
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GLSA:  tcptraceroute (200306-14)
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Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:21:09 +0200

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-14
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          PACKAGE : tcptraceroute
          SUMMARY : problems dropping root privileges
             DATE : 2003-06-28 20:21 UTC
          EXPLOIT : local
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <tcptraceroute-1.4-r1
    FIXED VERSION : >=tcptraceroute-1.4
              CVE : CAN-2003-0489

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quote from cve:

"tcptraceroute 1.4 and earlier does not fully drop privileges after 
obtaining a file descriptor for capturing packets, which may allow 
local users to gain access to the descriptor via a separate 
vulnerability in tcptraceroute."

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-analyzer/tcptraceroute upgrade to tcptraceroute-1.4-r1 as follows

emerge sync
emerge tcptraceroute
emerge clean

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